Vietnam starts building INDC report

A workshop was held in Hanoi on August 18 to launch the process of
building Vietnam’s report on intended nationally-determined
contributions (INDC) to mitigating climate change.

Co-organised by the Ministry of the Ministry of Natural Resources and
Environment, the United Nations Development Programme and Germany’s
development cooperation organization (GIZ), the event brought together
a crowd of representatives from many ministries, sectors and
institutions.

In his opening speech, Deputy Minister of Natural
Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha said as there were many
different views on IDNC during negotiation sessions on climate change at
the 19 th Session the Conference of the Parties to the UN Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 19), there is no available
guidance on building the report.

However, there is not much
time until convention participating countries have to submit their INDC,
so the country should quickly develop its own report, which should be
conducted transparently with the involvement of all related parties,
including the country’s international development partners, Ha stressed.

Participants gave their opinions on the contents and form of
Vietnam’s INDC, including contributions related to climate change
adaptation and relief, the country’s ability to receiving and
transferring technology in the field, and coordination mechanisms
between relevant ministries, sectors and organisations in making the
report.

In recent years, the Government has issued many policies
on responding to climate change in Vietnam and the country has also
accumulated many valuable experiences in deploying multilateral and
bilateral cooperation mechanisms on adapting to reduce green house
emission. These are considered as important basis for setting up the
INDC report.-VNA